16th Annual Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition

Results Summary for the 16th Annual Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition hosted by the Moot Court Honor Society Washington College of Law American University Congratulations to our Award Winners: Champion South Texas College of Law (Team 1) Chris Burt, Kaylan Estes & Kim Jessett Runner up University of San Diego School of Law (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon & Courtney Randall Semifinalists Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Team 1) Stefanie Baker, Jill Murphey & Craig Tuttle University of Wisconsin Law School Darin L. Achilles & Davin A. Widgerow Best Oralist Craig Tuttle Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Second Best Oralist Davin A. Widgerow University of Wisconsin Law School Best Brief Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Matthew Friedenberg & Lana Milojevic Second Best Brief (Tie) South Texas College of Law (Team 1) Chris Burt, Kaylan Estes & Kim Jessett University of San Diego School of Law (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon & Courtney Randall

Preliminary Round 1 On Brief 1 Brooklyn Christopher Repole 107 2 New York Law School (Team 2) Clifford Merin 102 3 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt 99 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 99 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Erin Israel 99 6 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Derek Hecht 98 7 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Jill Murphey 97 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Joanna Simon 97 9 Georgia State (Team 2) Calvin Yaeger 96 10 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Shelley Levisay 94 11 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 93 Michigan State Jared Kosin 93 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Sara Eigenberg 93 14 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Patrick M. Causey 92 15 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Elizabeth Sark 90 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Rodney Montoya 90 17 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Charlie Wolfe 89 Univ. of La Verne Danielle Noble 89 Univ. of La Verne Sofia Ahmed 89 20 New York Law School (Team 1) Thomas Boyle 88 21 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 86 South Texas (Team 2) Jill Jester 86 23 New York Law School (Team 2) Joshua Hoffman 85 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Kevin Comeau 85 St. Thomas Sharon Glenn 85 26 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Amy C. Burns 84 27 Georgia State (Team 1) Kimberly Rayborn 83 Georgia State (Team 1) Kylene Farmer 83 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Monique Lavender 83 St. Thomas Nicholas Reed 83 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 83 32 St. Johns Univ. Christine Gulino 82 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 82 South Texas (Team 2) Ryan King 82 35 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Jason Niehaus 81 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Larry Lalla 81 37 Southwestern Art Gharibian 80 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Diana Beaz 80 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Heath Bumgardner 80

Preliminary Round 1, continued On Brief 40 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Timothy Johnson 79 41 Georgia State (Team 2) Andreea Neculae 78 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Emily Goodman 78 Michigan State Nicole Schuppner 78 44 New York Law School (Team 1) Edward Mullen 75 45 St. Johns Univ. Chris Hunker 73 46 Brooklyn Christopher Hickman 71 47 Barry Univ. Richard Robbins 70 48 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Allison Leanord 69 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Courtney Stottler 69 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 69 Suffolk Steven Vallarelli 69 52 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Lauren White 67 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) Mark Joyce 67 54 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Chris Hobson 66 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Kathryn Rich 66 56 Cardozo Lana Milojevic 65 57 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Ashley Nicole Ward-Singleton 64 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) James Berreth 64 59 Southwestern Ashley Johnson 63 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Joe Sawka 63 61 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Eric Becker 62 62 Barry Univ. Arthur Hardie 61 63 Suffolk Hardy Watts 59 64 Cardozo Matthew Friedenberg 57 65 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Adam Smith - South Texas (Team 2) Anna Martinez - Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Blake Patton - Brooklyn Diane Rasal - St. Thomas Jason Stewart - Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Josh Hefner - South Texas (Team 1) Kim Jessett - Southwestern Nancy Jones Sylvester - Michigan State Patrick Burns - Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Stefanie Baker - George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Tasha Gibbs - Raw Scores are the combination of all three judges scores and are out of a possible 120 points.

Preliminary Round 2 Off Brief 1 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Kevin Comeau 104 2 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 99 3 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Larry Lalla 98 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Stefanie Baker 98 5 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Amy C. Burns 97 South Texas (Team 1) Kim Jessett 97 Cardozo Matthew Friedenberg 97 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Patrick M. Causey 97 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 97 10 Southwestern Ashley Johnson 96 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 96 12 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Allison Leanord 95 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 95 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 95 St. Thomas Sharon Glenn 95 16 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Joanna Simon 94 17 Brooklyn Christopher Hickman 93 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Derek Hecht 93 New York Law School (Team 2) Joshua Hoffman 93 20 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Ashley Nicole Ward-Singleton 91 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 91 St. Thomas Nicholas Reed 91 23 Georgia State (Team 2) Andreea Neculae 90 Southwestern Art Gharibian 90 Georgia State (Team 2) Calvin Yaeger 90 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) Mark Joyce 90 27 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Charlie Wolfe 89 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Chris Hobson 89 29 New York Law School (Team 2) Clifford Merin 87 30 South Texas (Team 2) Anna Martinez 86 Brooklyn Diane Rasal 86 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) James Berreth 86 Barry Univ. Richard Robbins 86 34 Barry Univ. Arthur Hardie 85 35 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Josh Hefner 85 36 Univ. of La Verne Danielle Noble 83 37 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Sara Eigenberg 82 New York Law School (Team 1) Thomas Boyle 82 39 Michigan State Jared Kosin 81

Preliminary Round 2, continued Off Brief 40 Michigan State Nicole Schuppner 80 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Tasha Gibbs 80 42 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Timothy Johnson 79 43 New York Law School (Team 1) Edward Mullen 78 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Elizabeth Sark 78 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Eric Becker 78 46 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Rodney Montoya 77 47 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Kathryn Rich 76 48 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Courtney Stottler 75 Univ. of La Verne Sofia Ahmed 75 50 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Joe Sawka 74 51 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Diana Beaz 73 52 Georgia State (Team 1) Kimberly Rayborn 72 53 St. Johns Univ. Christine Gulino 70 54 St. Johns Univ. Chris Hunker 69 55 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Blake Patton 67 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Jason Niehaus 67 Georgia State (Team 1) Kylene Farmer 67 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Monique Lavender 67 59 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Adam Smith 66 60 South Texas (Team 2) Jill Jester 63 Cardozo Lana Milojevic 63 62 Suffolk Hardy Watts 61 63 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Emily Goodman 57 64 Suffolk Steven Vallarelli 54 65 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt - Brooklyn Christopher Repole - Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Erin Israel - George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Heath Bumgardner - St. Thomas Jason Stewart - Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Jill Murphey - Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Lauren White - Southwestern Nancy Jones Sylvester - Michigan State Patrick Burns - South Texas (Team 2) Ryan King - Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Shelley Levisay - Raw Scores are the combination of all three judges scores and are out of a possible 120 points.

Preliminary Round Results RANK TEAM SCORE 1 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) 80.29 2 South Texas (Team 1) 80.08 3 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) 79.77 4 Univ. of Wisconsin 78.35 5 Univ. of La Verne 76.00 6 Brooklyn 75.02 7 South Texas (Team 2) 74.02 8 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) 73.23 9 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) 72.79 10 Cardozo 72.63 11 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) 72.54 12 Michigan State 72.25 13 Georgia State (Team 2) 72.21 14 New York Law School (Team 1) 71.98 15 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) 71.67 16 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) 69.71 17 St. Thomas 69.13 18 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) 69.02 19 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) 68.83 20 St. Johns University 68.13 21 Southwestern 68.10 22 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) 67.94 23 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) 67.54 24 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) 67.31 25 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) 67.10 26 New York Law School (Team 2) 64.56 27 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) 64.54 28 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) 63.60 29 Barry Univ. 59.29 30 Suffolk 58.81 31 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) 57.54 32 Georgia State (Team 1) 56.77 Preliminary Round scores are based on 50% brief and 50% oral argument scores.

Octofinal Round Results Individual Competitor Scores 1 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 110 2 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Larry Lalla 109 3 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Derek Hecht 106 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Joanna Simon 106 5 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 105 6 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Allison Leanord 103 7 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Charlie Wolfe 102 Univ. of La Verne Danielle Noble 102 9 Cardozo Matthew Friedenberg 100 10 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 97 Cardozo Lana Milojevic 97 12 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt 95 13 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 94 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Erin Israel 94 15 Georgia State (Team 2) Andreea Neculae 93 16 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 89 Michigan State Jared Kosin 89 18 Georgia State (Team 2) Calvin Yaeger 87 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Diana Beaz 87 20 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Ashley Nicole Ward-Singleton 86 New York Law School (Team 1) Thomas Boyle 86 22 Brooklyn Christopher Repole 85 South Texas (Team 2) Ryan King 85 Univ. of La Verne Sofia Ahmed 85 25 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 83 26 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Rodney Montoya 82 27 South Texas (Team 2) Jill Jester 81 28 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Jill Murphey 79 29 New York Law School (Team 1) Edward Mullen 78 Michigan State Nicole Schuppner 78 31 Brooklyn Christopher Hickman 76 32 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Chris Hobson 69 Raw Scores are the combination of all three judges scores and are out of a possible 120 points.

Octofinal Round Results By Bracket (16) Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) (15) Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) (3) Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) (14) New York Law School (Team 1) (4) Univ. of Wisconsin (13) Georgia State (Team 2) (12) Michigan State (5) Univ. of La Verne (11) Stetson Univ. (Team 1) (6) Brooklyn (10) Cardozo (7) South Texas (Team 2) (8) Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) (9) Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) (3) Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) (4) Univ. of Wisconsin (5) Univ. of La Verne (11) Stetson Univ. (Team 1) (10) Cardozo (8) Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Octofinal Round advancement is based on head to head scores (65% oral argument; 35% brief score).

Quarterfinal Round Results 1 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt 100 2 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 99 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 99 4 Cardozo Matthew Friedenberg 98 5 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 95 6 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 93 7 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 91 8 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 90 9 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Chris Hobson 89 10 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Ashley Nicole Ward-Singleton 88 Cardozo Lana Milojevic 88 12 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Allison Leanord 82 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Larry Lalla 82 Univ. of La Verne Sofia Ahmed 82 15 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Jill Murphey 78 16 Univ. of La Verne Danielle Noble 77 (8) Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) (10) Cardozo (4) Univ. of Wisconsin (11) Stetson Univ. (Team 1) (3) Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) (5) Univ. of La Verne (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) (4) Univ. of Wisconsin (3) Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Quarterfinal Round advancement is based on head to head scores (80% oral argument; 20% brief score).

Semifinal Round Results 1 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 107 2 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt 104 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 104 4 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 98 5 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 97 6 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 96 7 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 90 8 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Stefanie Baker 80 (4) Univ. of Wisconsin (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) (3) Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) (1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) (2) South Texas (Team 1) Semifinal Round advancement is based on head to head oral argument scores.

Brief Scores RANK TEAM RAW SCORE 1 Cardozo 86.50 2 South Texas (Team 1) Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) 86.00 86.00 4 South Texas (Team 2) Univ. of La Verne 82.00 82.00 6 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) 81.00 7 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) 80.50 8 Univ. of Wisconsin 79.00 9 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) 78.50 10 New York Law School (Team 1) Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Georgia State (Team 2) 76.67 76.67 76.67 13 Brooklyn 75.67 14 Michigan State 75.33 15 St. Johns University Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) 75.00 75.00 17 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) 70.67 18 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) 70.33 19 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) 69.50 20 Southwestern 67.67 21 Suffolk 67.00 22 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) 66.50 23 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) 66.00 24 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) 65.67 25 St. Thomas 65.40 26 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) 65.33 27 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) 64.00 28 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) 58.00 29 Barry Univ. 55.67 30 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) 53.00 31 New York Law School (Team 2) 52.67 32 Georgia State (Team 1) 50.00 The Brief Score is out of a possible 100 points.

Oralist Scores RANK TEAM COMPETITOR NAME SCORE 1 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Craig Tuttle 194 2 Univ. of Wisconsin Davin A. Widgerow 192 3 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Derek Hecht 191 Univ. of San Diego (Team 1) Joanna Simon 191 5 New York Law School (Team 2) Clifford Merin 189 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Kevin Comeau 189 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Patrick M. Causey 189 8 Georgia State (Team 2) Calvin Yaeger 186 9 Stetson Univ. (Team 2) Amy C. Burns 181 Univ. of Wisconsin Darin L. Achilles 181 11 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Seth McCutcheon 180 St. Thomas Sharon Glenn 180 13 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Larry Lalla 179 14 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Charlie Wolfe 178 Univ. of San Diego (Team 2) Courtney Randall 178 New York Law School (Team 2) Joshua Hoffman 178 17 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Sara Eigenberg 175 18 Michigan State Jared Kosin 174 St. Thomas Nicholas Reed 174 20 Univ. of La Verne Danielle Noble 172 21 Southwestern Art Gharibian 170 New York Law School (Team 1) Thomas Boyle 170 23 Georgia State (Team 2) Andreea Neculae 168 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Elizabeth Sark 168 25 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Rodney Montoya 167 26 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 1) Allison Leanord 164 Brooklyn Christopher Hickman 164 Univ. of La Verne Sofia Ahmed 164 29 South Texas (Team 1) Kaylan Estes 160 30 Southwestern Ashley Johnson 159 31 Michigan State Nicole Schuppner 158 George Mason Univ. (Team 2) Timothy Johnson 158 33 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) Mark Joyce 157 34 Barry Univ. Richard Robbins 156 35 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Ashley Nicole Ward-Singleton 155 Stetson Univ. (Team 1) Chris Hobson 155 Georgia State (Team 1) Kimberly Rayborn 155 38 Cardozo Matthew Friedenberg 154 39 Florida Int'l Univ. (Team 2) Diana Beaz 153 New York Law School (Team 1) Edward Mullen 153

Preliminary Round 2, continued RANK TEAM COMPETITOR NAME SCORE 41 St. Johns Univ. Christine Gulino 152 42 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 2) James Berreth 150 Georgia State (Team 1) Kylene Farmer 150 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Monique Lavender 150 45 South Texas (Team 2) Jill Jester 149 46 Univ. of Miami (Team 2) Jason Niehaus 148 47 Barry Univ. Arthur Hardie 146 48 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Courtney Stottler 144 49 St. Johns Univ. Chris Hunker 142 Univ. of South Dakota (Team 1) Kathryn Rich 142 51 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Eric Becker 140 52 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Joe Sawka 137 53 Univ. of Miami (Team 1) Emily Goodman 135 54 Cardozo Lana Milojevic 128 55 Suffolk Steven Vallarelli 123 56 Suffolk Hardy Watts 120 57 Brooklyn Christopher Repole 107 58 South Texas (Team 1) Chris Burt 99 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Erin Israel 99 60 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Stefanie Baker 98 61 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 1) Jill Murphey 97 South Texas (Team 1) Kim Jessett 97 63 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Shelley Levisay 94 64 South Texas (Team 2) Anna Martinez 86 Brooklyn Diane Rasal 86 66 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 1) Josh Hefner 85 67 South Texas (Team 2) Ryan King 82 68 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Heath Bumgardner 80 George Mason Univ. (Team 1) Tasha Gibbs 80 70 Univ. of Oklahoma (Team 2) Blake Patton 67 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Lauren White 67 72 Cleveland-Marshall (Team 2) Adam Smith 66 73 St. Thomas Jason Stewart Southwestern Nancy Jones Sylvester Michigan State Patrick Burns Oralist Scores are based on the Preliminary Rounds only.